Hamp Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) So I am moving up from a 40g to a 60g in the next week or so. I have some questions, and could use some feed back as I go along. Right now I have about 50lbs of live rock that I bought when I started the 40g a few months ago. It had some algae issues when I bought it, but it was really cheap, and I wanted to battle it to see if I could get a handle on it. I beat it before, on my last tank years ago with Kent Tech M. I used the same treatment, and it was working, so I started stocking the tank. As I did, I maybe moved too fast, and my nitrates started to rise. So I started some water changes, which lowered my nitrates, but also my Mg, and the bryopsis is coming back. So, I plan on getting another big jug of Tech M, and treat again. I am not sure if I should do this in the 40 before the move or, scrub the rock down in the transfer, and start fresh in there. I also want to go with a real deep sand bed because I want to put some jawfish in there, and maybe some other creatures that like a DSB. So I was planning on washing my sandbed in the 40 until the water runs clean in a bucket, and adding another 5gal bucket as well. I am kind of thinking that I may want to cycle it with just a bit of liverock before transferring all of the rock and livestock. I also have a bit of cyano on the sandbed, thinking that it may be from nitrates, and the sandbed coming to life. I am sure that I will have some algae issues to deal with in a new tank anyways, but with the bryopsis treatment, and cyano, I worry about it getting messy. Any suggestions or advice is appreciated. Edited May 10, 2015 by Hamp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viet'spride70 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 IMO, I would nuke everything and start fresh...using Kent M to treat bryopsis is harsh to some specimens,since u have to keep M at 1600ppm in order to kill. Just like u said, u could go ur round if u r more comfortable with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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